We Descend, The Complete Edition

"The hypertext rendering of this Complete Edition of Archives Pertaining to Egderus Scriptor took shape over the course of a generation, and comprises writings gathered and transmitted over a span many times that long. Here collected in one volume are all the texts previously issued in three separate volumes published under the title We Descend.

Those previous selections from the Archives were rendered into hypertext form by Bill Bly, the current Curator. Volume One was published EV 1997 as a standalone computer application distributed by Eastgate Systems; Volume Two was brought out in the online journal The New River, Fall 2017. In addition, a 'preliminary view' of Volume Three appeared in The New River, Fall 2019. The edition you are reading now presents Volume Three in full, and includes a number of Writings heretofore unpublished.

Over the course of this project, the process of preparing the Writings has matured, with the inevitable consequence that some inconsistencies appeared not only in the narratives of certain Authors, but also in the apparatus in which they were housed. This omnibus edition attempts to smooth out that unevenness, though some irregularities were felt to be part of their story, and were retained.––Bill Bly, from The Preface to We Descend